Soweto exists because the apartheid government declared Johannesburg's southwest townships a segregated zone in 1963, consolidating twenty-six neighborhoods under one administrative name: South Western Townships. The acronym stuck. Today the area covers 130 square kilometers and is home to 1.3 million people, making it one of Africa's most densely populated urban residential zones and a living archive of South Africa's liberation struggle. Vilakazi Street in Orlando West remains the only street in the world where two Nobel Peace Prize laureates—Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu—once lived as neighbors. Mandela's brick home at number 8115, now a museum, preserves the rooms as they were in the 1950s: a narrow kitchen, a coal stove, family photographs on whitewashed walls. The street itself was tarred only in 2000. Archbishop Tutu's house, still a private residence, sits a few blocks away. Both men attended the same church, Regina Mundi, whose walls still bear bullet holes from the 1976 student uprisings when police fired into the congregation. The altar was destroyed by tear gas canisters; parishioners rebuilt it from marble donated by Italian stonemasons. A Soweto walking tour with lunch offers structured access to sites that remain inaccessible by private vehicle—narrow lanes between matchbox houses, shebeen courtyards, family-run spaza shops—led by guides who grew up in the township and can translate the social geography visitors miss. Most guided walks depart from Vilakazi Street between 9:00 and 14:00, covering two to three kilometers over three hours, with stops at the Hector Pieterson Memorial, Freedom Square, and local craft cooperatives. Lunch is served in a township tavern or private home, typically pap and vleis, chakalaka, morogo, and ginger beer brewed on-site. The Hector Pieterson Memorial honors the twelve-year-old boy shot during the 1976 Soweto Uprising, when fifteen thousand students marched against the imposition of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in schools. The photograph of Mbuyisa Makhubo carrying Pieterson's body became the defining image of the anti-apartheid movement. The museum adjacent to the memorial uses oral histories, police transcripts, and student testimonies to document the hundred-day revolt that followed, which spread to townships nationwide and accelerated international sanctions. Walking tour itineraries typically allocate forty minutes here. Guides who were students in 1976 lead many of the heritage tours, adding firsthand memory to the archival record.